Word: oscarization
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...thrillers like The Sixth Sense and critics' faves Schindler's List and Seabiscuit. Their shared filmography adds up to more than $5 billion at the U.S. box office. This year the Kennedy/Marshall Co. produced the blue-chip franchise flick The Bourne Ultimatum and two ambitious independent films with Oscar buzz, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Persepolis. They're also at work on a some of 2008's most anticipated movies, including the fourth Indiana Jones installment and a Brad Pitt-Cate Blanchett epic romance called The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. "They have impeccable taste--in people...
...still not comfortable with historians and Harvard professors declaiming in documentaries about their love of the Olde Towne Team. And the Sox themselves have been so slovenly - helmets covered in pine tar, caps caked in resin, their sweatshirt-loving manager never seen in his uniform top - even Oscar Madison is embarrassed...
...Flash forward several years and Gore’s an Oscar-winning, PowerPoint junkie. He’s included in Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” under scientists and thinkers. By all accounts he’s single-handedly credited with teaching an entire nation about global warming—and the Nobel committee agrees...
...spot in history as one of Hollywood's premier sex symbols. Too tall to pursue her first love, ballet, Kerr also made her mark in roles like the starched governess in The King and I and a hopeless romantic in An Affair to Remember. She was nominated for six Oscars but never won. The Academy finally granted her an honorary Oscar in 1994 in recognition of her "perfection, discipline and elegance...
Other fantasy worlds have presented gay (or at least gay-seeming) characters, but usually they are, literally, inhuman. George Lucas gave us the epicene C-3PO and the little butch R2-D2, and their Felix-Oscar dialogue suggests the banter of a couple of old queens who have been keeping intergalactic house for millenniums. But their implied homosexuality is quite safe. There is no real flesh that could actually entangle. Similarly, there was a girl-on-girl plot in 1995 on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but let me spare you a fanboy summary by noting merely that...